The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1902, Page 1

‘ ON PAGE 8. The _, BEGINNING IN TO-MORROW’S EVENING WORLD,A HEART-HOL / RACING# SPORTS GENERAL | SPORTING NEWS DING STORY, “SHE LOVED HIM,’ BY CHARLES‘G IGHT EDITION N PRICE ONE CENT. “ Circulation Books Open to All.’? | NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1902 CSE CLOSED Jury in Divorce Suit Retired ’ After Broker's Lawyer ~ Attacked Veracity of Mrs. Wyatt, Plaintiff's Sister, SHE SPIED ON HIM WITH WIFE Grace Stowell, Pretty Co-re- spondent, Cleverly Fenced with Lav y.r and Denied She Was Scentily Clad When Val- entine Visited Her. After a day devoted largely to an at- «ec upon the character for veraci irs, Ida Wyatt, sister of Mrs. Grace 1. Valentine, who wis her principal wit- ress, the sult brought by Mrs. Valentine for a divorce from Broker Charles Car- # leton Valent’'ne was « the jury late this afternoon. Mrs. Wyatt was with Mrs, Valentine when she broke into the co-respondent's room her husband. She produced witnesses who tald she was truthful | Tho day began with the r % Grace Stowell, the «weet spondent, to the witness stand in Part Il. of the Supreme Court. Miss Stowell was robed entire: In sombre black. In her entire make-up there was no at- temat of adornment, She looked the character which the defense ts trying to picture her—that of a demure dresemake:, drawn into an embarras- sing position by a combination of un- fubtinate circumstances, houses and places where laquor was -|being sold without a license in chat precinct. Both men were warned that AND STEPHENSO Jerome Prefers Charges Against Inspector and Captain for Neglect in Failing to Sup- press Disorderly Resorts. HAD DISREGARDED WARNINGS So Evidence Was Quictly Procured and the Accused Officers Mu:: Take TheiraPlaces on the Police Mourning Bench, Charges were preferred this afternoon by District-Attorney Jerome againat In- spector Donald Grant and Capt. Steph- Naon, of the Mulberry Street Station. ‘They are based on the alleged existence of disorderly houses in the Mulberry street prec! which 1s in Inspector Grant's district. The charges allege failure to make reports, the making of false reports, neglest of duty, alsobedience of orders and conduct unbeco The two men Grant has been In charge of the Inspection District since August and Stephenson was sent to Mulberty street but a short time before that. After Grant had been there a short time Chief Inspector Cortright sent for him and uenson and told them botn, it ts alleged, that there were disorderly these places must be closed up. They denied that any such places existed and Cortright, it {s alleged, then gaye them a st of the places to which he had reference. . . Dinregarded Warnings. Grant and Stephenson still too’ to action In the matter, and Cortright hav- ing given them ample time to move, Miss Stowell answered the questions of Lawyer McCormack In a voice #0 low that the jurors scarcely heard her. A few fect away Mrs, Valentine sat ‘Risting eontemptuously at the black- rahed person in the witness chair, As denials poured forth from Miss Stow-: él'x lips Mrs Valentine sneered. Not | onee did she gaze in the direction of, her band, but sat stern, pale and un- | <ompromisina. i Smited Only Once. Omy once yesterday did Mrs, Valen- | time smite That was when her hi zl bind, jn repy to a question as to Whesper pis wife sald anything when) the caught him in Miss Stowell's room, #lid) ‘Indeed ane did.” The answer | Whe given so mournfully and with such; @ Volume of expression that the specta- Tors were enabled to conjure up the scene, and they snickered. Mrs. Valen- tne permitted a smile to relax her stern mouth Just for a moment, “Phe spicy developments of yesterday's * gession had their effect, and to-day the court-room was crowded with men and Women eager to hear further revela- tions, Lawyer McCormack proceeded with a fre of questions concerning the loca- tion of rooms, the number of roomers | And other details of the house. Q After Oct. 12 where did you go? A. To Boston. ¥ Q At whose suggestion? A. No one's, @. Whom did you visit? A. My aunt. i Q. Do young ladies live at your aunt's? \) et? AL Yes, i ‘How many of them," inquired Mc- Cormack, eagerly. “Two hundred and fifty.” ml; - plea” Miss Stowell. Sere Got Back at Lawyer. “Two hundred and fifty!" echoed the famyer, amazed. “Describe what ert ‘of a house it ts.” “The Young Woman's Christian As- poctation,” said Miss Stowell. ‘The spec- fatora laughed. ; Q Where did you go after that? A, {fo another boarding-house in Highty- thind treet. "Q Ladies’ altogether. they entertained ‘a. Don't A'indy alwayg entertain entiemen Is? “T don't know about that,” remarked x, McCormack. which remark broughy forth an objecticn from Mr. Hummel a rebuke from the Court. McCormack then went’ over the of Mr. Valentine's meeting with and though the #«xamina- chauative, there was nothing @ call which Mr, ~ fe on Miss Stowell. at Now ap NR STE A Miporty ect, Mts Meer ck asked: ils Paice Were you aressed in the same tight. Raertre that has been mentioned MI was,” replied Miss SI an te: few minutes’ us a you couldn't Tee boarding-house. A. Not en . Valentine and Mrs, jatt gushed into your room He Our into the hale ere Oe 7 om did you see? A. Not you, You Aldn't” exe You were tnete Tam positive You were not. fowtll then ‘mamied: women Tad made dresses and she ertified thar sold einbroide eal rr. paxian, who stood up in court i ntited. t@ Where sre’ ya. living now? A. the Empire Hotel. ae ey hat room do you occupy? A. Nod there? A, No, Ine called there? ‘Taunton and Waltham, Rut Report that He Is Threatenea fering with pleuri: threatened with pneumonia was to-day denied at the Partridge home, No. 829 Former Secretary of War Now a after the journal was read in the Benate Delegation In Unanimous for the Ing of the New York de "| House. this afternoon .|mously decided to support Representa- tive Cannon for Speaker and Lyon, of New York. for doorkeenoe put some of his own men in the dis- trict and got evidence showing beyond auestion the existence of the places. Then he went to. Jerome. -Phe-District= Attorney sent some-of the county de- testives out to corroborate the evidence of Cortright’s men, The raid on the aisorderly houses in that precinct last night finished up the casés in the opinf n of the District-Attorney,and so | today he filed his charges. ‘ Capt, Stephenson ts known in the Po- lice Department as “Peaches,” because in the Lexow days he was Indicted for recelving peaches as a bribe from « mer- chant. He was convicted, but got a new trial, and was eventually restored to the force. ELECTIONS IN BAY STATE. Thirteen Cities Vo omctal BOSTON, Dec, 2—Thirteen cities in Massachusetts held municipal elections to-day under favorable weather condJi- ong. The list of those in which ballots ere cast to-day includes Brockton, Fitchburg, Gloucester, Haverhill, Law- rence, Marlboro, New Bedford, North- ampton, Pittsfield, Quiney, Springfield, for New Reports from these citles In almost every instance indicated unusyal interest on the part of the citizens, —<$—<—<— COL. PARTRIDGE HAS A COLD. with Pneamonia Ins Denice The report that Col. John N. Part- ridge, Commissioner of Police, was sut- and bronchitis and roll street, Brooklyn. Col, Partridge a heavy cold. He will be Pe mb abet sel gee at SENATOR ALGER SWORN IN. Lawmaker. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.~Immediately Russell A, Alger was sworn in as Sena- tor from Michigan, ——_- NEW YORK IS FOR CANNON. Illinois Man. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—At a meet- unani- houses taking plotures. YALENTINE. OW iS cu GANFIELOAAID LIKE A FARCE. News of !t Was Property Early Yester- day, and Stuff Taken by Police Was Mostly Out : of Date. . NOBODY MUCH WORRIED, Gamblers in No Danger of Ar- rest and Canfield Himself Won't Appear Before the Grand Jury, His Lawyer Says. THE NIGHT OF THE RAID. Mr. Jerome announces leaving his office that there will be “something doing’ during the evening. He breaks into Canfield’s with axes and Iadders and finds that gentleman waiting with hin Inwyer to receive him. He finds a lot of old gambling paraphernalia stacked in a clonet. An employee ts arrested, but Can- field in not distarbed, his papers are respected, hin desk In not even examined, THE DAY AFTER. Mr. Jerome says no warrant has t be summoned before the Grand Jars. ‘There in have Richard A. Canfield, whose gambling- house at No. 5 East Forty-fourth street, was raided by District-Attorney Jerome lant night with brass band aceompant- ments, got out of the city taday. It was said that he feared he might be summoned to testify before the Grand Jury, but Mr. Jerome sald that no sub- poena had been issued for him and that, therefore, there was no reason why the boss gambler should leave. To the surprise of every one none of the six persons found in Canfleld’s was summoned before the Grand Jury. Mr. Jerome seemed to be delighted wita the result of the raid, although he made but one arrest at the place—that of D. W. Bucklin, Canfleld’s manager. He re- Joiced at the capture of the beautiful gambling apparatus and the demonstra- tion, to the police that e¥idence could be obtained against such places, which hitherto have had the reputation of be- Ing proof against detectives’ wiles, Haw Jerome Another Plant His complacency in what looked Ike the defeat of his raids both at Canileld’s and at Frank Farrell's indleated to some minds thac the District-Attorney had another card up his sleeve. He made a great howdy-do about the houses be- Ing tipped off by some one and yet sald that he was-satisfied with results. So did It was Deputy Commissioner Piper. reported that back of it all 1s a well-lald plan of Jerome to prove that as soon ‘as the evidence now being gathered ts completed he will be arrested. Whilp no subpoena has as yet been Issued for Canfield the men found in his place last night and also those found in Ludlam’s and Farrell's have been subpoenaed to appear before the Grand Jury and an effort will be made to have them tell what they know. As usual, in similar cases, there are al- ready reports that some one -has squealed, but the gamblers do not ap- pear to be worried. News of Raid Leaked Out. As to the tipping off, the District-At- torney has only hisnself to blame tn the opinion of those who know what tx going on in the Criminal Courts Build- ing. As a matter of fact, every morn- Ing newspaper knew yesterday afternoon that the raids were coming off. In thelr enthusiasm to get the complete “story,” some of them had photogra- phers in front of the marked gambling There was a hustle all through the offices preparing (Continued on Second Page) This was of November, 1904, ' New York newspaper, All November Records Beaten. In November, 1902, the Evening Edition of The World carried 790 14 columns of advertising. ah increase of 94.14 columns over the month This showing breaks all records for the month of Novem ber since the first i8sue of the Evening Edition. The record may be found in the Publication office of any Public’ : B2OSSOHESHOD4OO oee< $-96-94002: before | ‘ Turn this page from left te right and eee the wheels gO round, GIAN ea TINY CASH GIRL, TAKES POISON ~~ ——_ +. Had No Home, Not Even a Little, Dog to Care if She Died, and Weeping She Took Acid in Big Department Store. There was more excitement crowded | into fifteen minutes In the Bayonne Po- lice Headquarters this afternoon than had ever been spread out over all the years of the de When John Loftus, a 250-pound, bar to beat the g: SHE WAS A. FRAIL CHILD. slant’ prisoner, accused of bur ——— made a frantlo effort to break jail. Loftus, who was arrested carly thir Martha vig, -yenr-old tartha Hellwig, a fourteen-year-old| morning’ on the, suspicion of, having shopgirl, after brooding for several weeks over the fact that she was an orphan and friendless, tried to end her life by drinking carbolic acid this after- noon in one of the empty storerooms of an uptown department store on West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street. ‘The little girl, who is very frail and delicate, was orphaned about ten years burglarized several houses in Bayonne, gave his address as Elizabeth, N. J. He submitted docllel; arrest and was lodge’ in a cell at.headquarters with out any difficulty, Early this afternoon, howeve; bullding began to shake, and in tion showed the Cycloplan prisoner the and foot TEARS CELL CARTOONIST POWERS'S IDE. OF MR. JEROME'S “RAID' ON “DICK” CANFIELD’S. BDL BER SE SHOHIHHGHHHG DOOGPLHGEILDHOEG DOW H+ + $OSOOHOOOOH MRS eee SSSSssssss PDE TDIS FEDS & DPHOH3 DOS * i i $9990 $80606-8-04 99429096 000862N 6449-04 G6908-949-6 64.64490666$600600090000004 Sh EDPE. Sidley eeeNT DOOR \Plucks Out Thick Stee! Bar with His Naked Hand and Batters Barrier to Pieces. the act of tearing at the bars of the | oor of his cell, and before he could be | Interrupted he had torn one of the huge USK, every measure almed at trusts by the master minds which dom from its socket and then began e down, The entire police force of Bayonne was helpless to preven escape, as they did not dare go within reach of the great bar of iron. | Slowly he beat down the bars and had | almost demolished the steel framework | when the Chief of Police got out a fre hose and turned a two-inch stream of} Ice cold water on the prisoner, and when he was nearly drowned five policemen entered the cell and bound with incased in a straight Jacket. his efforts to hem hand menacles. He Is now ago, and up to last June she had lived in various institutions, Some charitable women who had interested themselves in the child, after listening to many pathetic appeals to be taken’ from the asylum, setured her a place in the de- partment store and a pleasant boarding place at 28 West One Hundred and ‘Thirty-fourth street. She made few friends and repeatedly told her compan- lons that she envied them thelr homes, their parents and brothers and sisters, “I have no one,” she said a few days ago, “not even a little dog, who cares whether I live or die, and.I am going to end {t all soon.” When she did not appear at 2.90 o'clock séveral of the gitls began a search trough the bullding and finally found her lying unconscious in an empty store- room on the fifth floor. There was an ond and Lou Woods third. 5, sécond; Ceylon third. Time—1.54 3-5. empty bottle labelled ‘carbolic acid’ beside her, She was taken to the J. H Wright Hospital, where it was said late this afternoon that there was some hope for her recovery. BIG STORM COMING. The foflowing specia! storm warning from Washington was received by the local Weather bureau this afternoon, ; “Southeast storm warnings are or- dered along the coast from Wilmington to Fort Monroe. Severe storm central near mouth of Ohio River, moving rap- idly northeast. | High, southeast ‘winds to-night, shifting Wednesday to south- west and west,” . | WEATHER FORECAST. for the thirty-six at 8 P. M. Wednes- day for New York City 1, second; Leviathan third. Time—1.52. ——+-+ Police Captain No. 33 West Thirty-third street, ing'incriminating was found. the early morning; Wednes 5 Mght to fresh » lers this affernege. “SEAL! The iy ned to-morrow morning. LATSON, AT 40 10 1, WINS FIFTH NEW ORLEANS RACE. RACE TRACK, NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2.—Latson, at 49 io 1 in the betting, won the {ifth race here to-day. Marcos was ses- First Race—Russellton, 15 to:1, won; Naboklish, place 3 to Second Race—Heniy McDanie!, 8 to 5, won; John Peters, place 4 to 5, second; Dr. Scharff third. Time—1.18 3-5. Third Race—Moabina, 6 to 5, won: Major Dixon, places 2 ‘9 5? Fourth Race—Chanterelle. 30 to 1, won; Potheen, place 4 ‘to 1, second; Chickadee third. Time—1.53. sixth Race—Sheriff Bell, 3 to 1, won; Florestan, place 5 to'1, second; Lord Touchwood third. Time—1.54. JEROME OPENS GAMBLING-HOUSE SAFE, ‘ormer Deputy Assistant Distsict-Attorney Daniel J. O'Reilly. neha : ; N Walsh, of the West Thirtieth street police sta-lome'sr the Commitee on Judiciary that Mopresentative J. Jo tion, and District-Attorney Jerome visited the Farrell house,|wieconsin, be made chairman of the committee, to succeed Hep and opened the safe- Noth.|Ray, of New York, who resigned to go on the Federal Dench. Mr, ; Sie Tat “SHOOFLY” COPS MAKE 21 COMPLAINTS AGAINST: POLICE, Six “shoofly” men sent to Brooklyn last ‘night reporte ‘wenty-one complaints against policemen at Police: Headquar —— VERDICT IN VALENTINE -DIVORCE CASE, in the. Valentine divorce case had not agreed ai 430 o'clock’ this évening, and Justice Hal! ordered a seal EFFORTS TO CURB ThE Ble TRUST feller to Prevent Drastic Legislation’ in Congress. While One Detests Publicity, and the O Cares Nothing for It, Both Are United in Fear that War Will Be Made on Ove capitalization. Wall street declares that J. Pierpont Morgan and John D. R c and their associates in the formation of the big trusts have underteken work of checking any attempt on the part of Uongress to put too curb on their pet combinations. At the office of J. P. Morgan & Co, it is officially denied that he ‘ha engaged a sult of rooms at a leading hotel in Washington, whence his or ders to kill off anti-trust legislation may emanate, BS This denial ie considered absolute so far as Mr. Morgan personally concerned, but Wall street does not hesitate to say that it is true he and’ Rockefeller ‘will try. to show Congress the path it should tread, HOW IT COULD BE DONE. i ] Thts imay be done in countless ways and by persons so remote businese connections with the guiding spirits that the relations them could uot” poselbly be traced. It-t8 admitted in the financial district that the Wall street lobby” Washington this session will he the largest and the moat formidable ; Capital bas scen for years, | Representatives of the great industrial combinations which have {formed within the last four years, and which are now threatened oy legislation, will be in many corners of the capital.; They, will be directed in their work of oppesing legitimately, ‘but ts the trust fleld. « x THEIR DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS, ah Mr. Rockefeller hates publicity and fights it, He would not permit the stock of the great Standard Oil Trust to be sted on the New York . Fxchange because he would not answer the questions concerning stock a {Issues which must he answered before they are listed. ‘To-day the stock of the Oll Trust, which this year paid $45,000,000 : dividends, is dealt in “on the curb,” where no questions are asked. i Mr. Morgan does not fear publicity. The meeting of the s of ae Sillion-Dollar Steel Trust—the biggest industrial corporation In the t world—are held with open doors. All the combinations he has wrought ats » are lated on the Stock Exchange and reports of their condition the public. property. But the tie that binds the two in this contest with Congress is salt be “water.” The threat to so legislate against the trusts that the wati stock may be squeezed dry is the gravest danger threatening them, BATTLE ON TRUSTS IS ON INCONGRESS” WASHINGTON, Dee. ‘There appears to be no doubt that the Preat- dent is determined to forse the consideration of anti-trust measures at tht sesaion of Congress. Th? introduction of a bill aimed at trusts to-day Senator Cutlom and the reference of anti-trust legislation in the House | a sub-committee of the Committee on Judiciary, of whith Re} Littlefield, of Maine, is Chairman, shows that the influence of the js paramount at the start. Pagiean 21%7 Representative littlefield has been talking about what should be done) to the trusts ever since Congress adjourned last summer, He is a friend of the President ond it is generally considered that he is the man chosen to carry out the Roosevelt idea of trust legislation In the House, ie BILL WILL BE PREPARED AT ONCE. He said to-day that he believed a bill for the regulation of Trusts we be ready for the attention of Congress before Christmas, It {s known he has a bill up his sleeve. Another straw showing that the wishes of the President are is known as a “trust smasher,” and the recommendation {s not pop those in Congress who would like see the trust quostion set back, Henderson's position on the matter is a question of doubt, LITTLEFIELD TO LEAD THE FIGHT. All anti-trust bliis will go to the Committee on Judiciary. they will bo referred to Mr. Littlefield’s sub-committee, This Mr. Littlefield will be the anti-trust representative of the House. 5 ‘ x